Greek "koimeterion"

These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

John 11:11

 

"The etymology of our English word “cemetery” is instructive.
Cemetery comes from the Greek a word, koimeterion, which is derived from the very same Greek word for sleep, koimao, in the passages (Matthew 27:52, John 11:11, Acts 13:36, I Cor. 15:20, I Cor 15:51 and I Thess. 4:14).  

So, in both English and in Biblical Greek, cemetery means “sleeping place”, much as the word “dormitory” is from the Latin word for sleep." Fulcrum7